Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 468E - Speech Pathologists and Audiologists

• ASHA: means the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the national administrative office of which is located in Rockville, Maryland, 10801 Rockville Pike (20852). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 468E-2
• Audiologist: means an individual who practices audiology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 468E-2
• Board: means the state board of speech pathology and audiology, established under § 468E-6. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 468E-2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 325-111
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 325-111
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Medical emergency: means any disease-related situation that threatens life or limb. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 325-101
• Medical personnel: means any health care provider in the State, as provided in § 323D-2, who deals directly or indirectly with the identified patient or the patient's contacts, and includes hospital emergency room personnel, the staff of the communicable disease division of the department of health, and any other department personnel as designated by the director. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 325-101
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Participant: means an injection drug user who exchanges a sterile needle and syringe unit pursuant to the program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 325-111
• Person: means any individual, organization, or corporate body, except that only an individual may be licensed under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 468E-2
• Post-secondary school: means any adult education school, business school, trade school, community college, college, or university enrolling or registering students above the age of compulsory attendance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 325-121
• practice of speech pathology: means the application of principles, methods, and procedures of measurement, prediction, evaluation, testing, counseling, consultation, and instruction related to the development and disorders of speech and related language and hearing for the purpose of modifying speech and related language and hearing disorders. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 468E-2
• Program: means the sterile needle and syringe exchange program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 325-111
• Registry: means the Hawaii immunization registry. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 325-121
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• School: means any child care center, preschool, day care center, day nursery, head start program, group child care home, kindergarten, elementary, intermediate, middle, or secondary school that is responsible for ensuring student compliance with mandatory school immunization entrance requirements. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 325-121
• Speech pathologist: means an individual who practices speech pathology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 468E-2
• Student: means any child or adult enrolled in any school or post-secondary school in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 325-121
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.